[MyAppleMenu] Aug 14, 2012

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MyAppleMenu
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**** Quick Look In Messages, Renaming Safari Bookmarks ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1168132/quick_look_in_messages_renaming_safari_bookmarks.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Kirk McElhearn, Macworld



**** It Just Works, <i>Not</i>! Apple Fail. ****
<http://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerkay/2012/08/13/it-just-works-not-apple-fail/>
Roger Kay, Forbes


> My own sense is that photo handling was an afterthought for Apple, which was concerned with music when it created iTunes.  iPhoto is sort of a bolt on.  Between iCloud, iOS, OS X, iPhoto, and iTunes, something is getting lost in the shuffle.  And no application of genius seems to make a difference.



**** Apple Licensed Designs To Microsoft, With One Hitch: No Copying ****
<http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/08/13/apple-licensed-designs-to-microsoft-with-one-hitch-no-copying/>
Ian Sherr, Wall Street Journal



**** Pixel Perfect ****
<http://daringfireball.net/2012/08/pixel_perfect>
John Gruber, Daring Fireball


> But now this. The 15-inch MacBook Pro With Retina display. This is a boom. A revolution in resolution. The display I’ve been craving ever since I first saw high-resolution laser printer output.



**** App Store Failure And Personal Responsibility ****
<http://prog21.dadgum.com/146.html>
Programming In The Twenty-First Century


> It would be wonderful to be in a position of developing software, blindly sending it out into the world, and making a fortune. It does happen. But when it doesn't, it's better to take responsibility for the failure and dig deeper into what to do about it rather than throwing up your hands and blaming the system.



**** When Documents In The Cloud Aren't ****
<http://www.macworld.com/article/1168122/when_documents_in_the_cloud_arent.html#lsrc.rss_main>
Christopher Breen, Macworld


> The interesting thing here is that while Mail will allow you to save printed PDF files to iCloud, there’s no way to access them because Mail doesn’t have a documents window. Likewise, if you were to go to icloud.com and click on Mail, you’d find no storage location for anything created by Mail. It doesn’t exist.

Sounds like a bug to me.





The Tomorrow Weblog
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**** How To Build A Phononic Computer ****
<http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428844/how-to-build-a-phononic-computer/?ref=rss>
Technology Review


> Physicists have designed the building blocks of quantum computer that works using sound.






MyAppleMenu Reader
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**** At Fifty ****
<http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/poem/2012/08/_at_fifty_by_eric_rawson_.html>
Eric Rawson, Slate



**** Go Away ****
<http://www.themorningnews.org/article/go-away?src=longreads>
Alexander Chee, The Morning News


> One of the burdens of life among fellow civilians is that when you enter the fugue state required for making art, you can’t really be a normal person. The good news is that at a colony, you’re not expected to.






SingaporeSurf
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**** Singapore Developers Get Creative To Snag Buyers ****
<http://www.property-report.com/singapore-developers-get-creative-to-snag-buyers-24193>
Kristie Neo, Property Report



**** More Japanese Firms Relocating To Singapore ****
<http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nb20120814a3.html>
Siti Rahil, The Japan Times


> A growing number of Japanese companies have moved some of their headquarters or key functions to Singapore, viewing the city-state as a strategic location where they can oversee a new wave of investment in Southeast Asia.



**** Most Companies Intend To Freeze Hiring: Survey ****
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1220098/1/.html>
S Ramesh, Channel NewsAsia


> A survey of 450 company executives on hiring trends for the second half of this year showed that the majority of respondents (66 per cent) intend to freeze hiring between July to December 2012.



**** Check Out These Extreme Scenarios In Singapore's Inflation Trend ****
<http://sbr.com.sg/economy/news/check-out-these-extreme-scenarios-in-singapores-inflation-trend>
Singapore Business Review



**** Maybe Baby? ****
<http://berthahenson.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/maybe-baby/>
Bertha Harian


> Maybe, Singaporeans are <i>not</i> (my goodness!) motivated by money.



**** SMRT Appoints New CEO ****
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1220106/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia


> He was the former Chief of Army and Chief of Defence Force. He was also appointed Permanent Secretary (Environment and Water Resources) in 2010, a position he left in June this year.



**** Govt Will Continue To Keep Close Watch On Inflation: DPM Tharman ****
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1220095/1/.html>
Kristie Neo, Channel NewsAsia


> Deputy prime minister and finance minister, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, said the government will continue to keep a close watch on inflation, and is prepared to introduce additional measures if necessary.



**** Body Of Missing NSF Found In Brunei ****
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1220060/1/.html>
Channel NewsAsia


> The body of the late Lance Corporal Muhammad Fahrurrazi Salim was found at 2:55am on Tuesday morning in Batu Apoi river in the Temburong training area in Brunei.



**** The Heartache Of The Migrant Nanny ****
<http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/the-heartache-of-the-migrant-nanny/>
Francesca Segrè, New York Times


> As if the heartache of leaving a child behind isn’t wrenching enough, these migrant women are often treated as lower-class citizens when they arrive in Singapore.

> Returning home after years of working abroad can be crushing. These nannies must say goodbye to an employer’s children on whom they have heaped their pent-up love for their own families. And when married nannies finally do go home, they find husbands and fathers have often disappeared in their prolonged absence. Perhaps more upsetting is returning to children who believe they have been abandoned while mom has been working abroad.



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**** A History Of Singapore’s Population Control, 1947 ~ 2001 ****
<http://www.sgpolcom.com/2012/08/10/a-history-of-singapores-population-control-1947-2001/>
SGPolCom


> In this article, we present a visual look at how for more than 30 years since 1947, the Singapore government has introduced birth control measures to bring down the population, and how from 1977 onwards till now, the government has battled Singapore’s ever decreasing birth rate with little success.



**** Is Goh Chok Tong Serious About Wanting A National Dialogue? ****
<http://yoursdp.org/news/2012-08-14-5292>
Singaore Democratic Party


> This is what the PAP is really good at, calling for something it has absolutely no intention of wanting to see happen. It is more an effort to manage the growing frustration and anger that is building up among Singaporeans than a genuine attempt to incorporate the wishes of the people into its policies. 

> It is just another effort to get the people to let off steam without having to make any meaningful change to its authoritarian ways. It wants to exclude the SDP from the "national" conversation so that it can continue to tell the people that it and only it has the ideas for Singapore, that there are no alternatives.



**** Want More Babies? Change Mindset Towards Less Educated ****
<http://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogs/singaporescene/want-more-babies-change-mindset-towards-less-educated-051201886.html>
Andrew Loh, Yahoo!


> There are no schemes to discourage graduates from having children because it is assumed that they will have good paying jobs which would in turn enable them to have children, as many as they can. For the lower-educated, assumed perhaps to have inferior employment prospects, children are in fact apparently and actively discouraged.



**** Badly Handling Woffles Case ****
<http://blogging4myself.blogspot.sg/2012/08/badly-handling-woffles-case.html>
Blogging For Myself


> Because I ain't a lawyer, now I kept thinking and not getting wiser why they dealt with it in such a daft fashion. As they are not stupid, they must been hiding somethings. This is bad when I realized I cannot be the only one feeling this way.



**** Waffling Over Woffles ****
<http://berthahenson.wordpress.com/2012/08/14/waffling-over-woffles/>
Bertha Harian


> Actually, I don’t see how anyone could be enlightened by what went on.



**** Massive Search For Missing Soldier ****
<http://www.todayonline.com/Singapore/EDC120814-0000045/Massive-search-for-missing-soldier>
Amanda Lee and Ashley Chia, Today


> Search operations will cover a 12 kilometre stretch of the tidal river Sungei Batu Apoi in Temburong where LCP Fahrurrazi was last seen. Helicopters are conducting aerial reconnaissance, while soldiers search on land along the banks.

Also:
• <a href="http://kementah.blogspot.sg/2012/08/missing-saf-serviceman-in-brunei-who.html">Missing SAF serviceman in Brunei: Who watches the watchers?</a> (David Boey, Senang Diri): One immediate takeway is driving home the safety first message, especially for SAF safety marshals. These safety guardians watch over SAF personnel and owe it to themselves to always watch out for one another.


**** ST’s Factual Inaccuracies And Innuendos : Tan Jee Say’s Response ****
<http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/08/sts-factual-inaccuracies-and-innuendos-tan-jee-says-response/>
Tan Jee Say, The Online Citizen